Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2018/February

This is the February archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2018.

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Lebenslüge f, noun grand lie, grand delusion, sustained delusion, lived lie
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
กินใจ • (gin-jai) verb to affect emotionally: to impress, to touch, to move, to overwhelm, etc. to distrust; to doubt; to question; to suspect
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ᾰ̓νᾰβλέπω • (anablépō) verb (intransitive) to look up, especially as a mark of confidence (transitive) to look up at (intransitive) to see again, to recover one's sight
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
संगम • (saṅgam) m, noun meeting, coming together, association confluence, junction (Hinduism) the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna at Allahabad company, amity (historical) the Sangam period of ancient Tamil Nadu (literary) sexual union, sexual intercourse
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
stultaĵo noun stupid action, stupidity nonsensical thing; (in the plural) twaddle, nonsense
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Foreign word of the day  in Icelandic
lífsspursmál n, noun matter of life and death, something very urgent or pressing, an important issue
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Foreign word of the day  in Ashokan Prakrit
𑀥𑀁𑀫𑀮𑀺𑀧𑀺 (dhaṃmalipi) f, noun law-edict
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
ухогорлоно́с • (uxogorlonós) m anim, noun (colloquial) otorhinolaryngologist (literally “ear-throat-nose”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
alvariza f, noun apiary, place with beehives stone wall enclosing an apiary and protecting it from bears and other predators
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Foreign word of the day  in French
mardi gras m, noun Shrove Tuesday: the day when traditionally all fat and meat in the house were finished up, before Christians were banned from eating them during Lent Mardi Gras: the last day of a carnival, traditionally the celebration immediately before the start of Lent when joy could be out of place for Christians a person dressed up in a ridiculous disguise
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
ողջագուրեմ • (ołǰagurem) verb (transitive) to receive lovingly, to embrace, to kiss
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
乃是 (nǎishì) verb (literary) to be none other than
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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
begrebsforvirring c, noun a situation in which communication is hindered by imprecise terminology
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Foreign word of the day  in Luxembourgish
Lazert m, noun a thoughtless or reckless person
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
chậu noun basin (for water); pot; vessel (medicine) pelvis (neologism, slang) lover; sweetheart; boyfriend or girlfriend
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Foreign word of the day  in Belarusian
го́рад • (hórad) m inan, noun city, town
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
quattrocchi m or f, noun (colloquial, informal, often derogatory) four-eyes (person who wears glasses) (masculine only) A goldeneye, especially the common goldeneye.
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Foreign word of the day  in Gujarati
માટે • (māṭe) postposition and conjunction for, in order to (literary) therefore, thus
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Foreign word of the day  in Scots
saunt noun and verb A saint. (pejorative) A wastrel, a sanctimonious hypocrite; a reprobate. (intransitive) To disappear, vanish; especially in a sudden and/or mysterious way. (transitive) To cause to vanish in a sudden or inexplicable manner; to spirit away.
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
novořeč f, noun newspeak (use of ambiguous words to deceive listeners)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
mũratina class 3, noun the sausage tree a type of alcoholic beverage, especially made from sugarcane fermented with a thoroughly dried sausage tree fruit
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
עָמַד • (amád) verb (intransitive, of a person) To stand, to stand up, to be standing. (intransitive, of a structure or vertical object) To stand, to be located. To be about to (do something).
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Foreign word of the day  in Tzotzil
jol akan noun knee (literally, "head of a leg")
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Foreign word of the day  in Ido
vespereskar verb (impersonal) to become evening
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